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ViburnumValley wrote:
Wee busts out of the late winter snowstorm to sprint across the finish line.

Yes, the inimitable India Quassiawood - Picrasma ailanthoides (formerly Picrasma quassioides as I learned it) - which is a relative in Simaroubaceae of Tree of Heaven.

You would never forget learning this plant after hearing Don Shadow pronounce it and speak at length about it in his unmistakeable Tennessee drawl.